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SkyLeap Home > SkyLeap Publications > Beginning Clarinet Songbook Home > Volume 1 Welcome to the Beginning Clarinet Songbook Lesson 12: Harmony Follow the links below for more information on each song, as well as pictures and helpful links. Song #2: Clarobotoo Admires the Central Pivot Irrigation Farms of the Midwest Song #3: Pink Dogwoods Playing in a Clear Blue Sky Song #4: The Train is on Its Way Song #5: Flopsy the Whimsical Clown Fixes His Engines and Speeds Forward Song #6: Autumnal Reflections in a Rippling Stream The elements of music in Lesson 12: Sound: Pitches used in this lesson: Low G through B flat Using accidentals every time we need to write a flat or sharp sign can make the music very cluttered and hard to read. A simple way to fix this problem is through the use of key signatures. The key signature occurs between the clef and the time signature. It has one or more sharps or flats and is on every staff of a piece of music. The key signature indicates the key of the music that you are playing. Up through Lesson 10, almost all of the songs that you played were in the key of C major, which has no sharps or flats. In this lesson we will learn two key signatures: The sharp in the key signature for G major indicates that every time you see an F, you should play the pitch F sharp. The flat in the key signature for F major indicates that every time you see a B in any range or octave of the piece, you should play B flat. When we say that a song is in a certain key, it means that the music is drawn to the pitch of that key. For example, in G major, the music is drawn to the pitch G. Notice that all of the songs in Lesson 12 end on the note of their key signatures. All of the songs in F major (one flat in the key signature) end on F. All of the songs in G major (one sharp in the key signature) end on G. |
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